A Girl and her Dog (and goat and horse)

Mia LOVES animals and in fact, we had a hard time keeping her from loving all over stray dogs while we were in Mexico recently (more on that later).

This is such a pitiful picture of little Chevy. Any of you who know this spaz will appreciate the fact that she was being SO mopey about being in her kennel (which is bigger than our house), that she sat still with this leaf hanging out of her mouth, the whole time I walked up to her and took this picture. Brat.

There is little that excites Mia more than getting to go feed all the random animals at my mom's house. This is Lizzy, the ginormous goat. She only gets more ginormous when Mia is around because Mia gives her so many treats! This is actually a big deal because for MONTHS Mia was scared to death of Lizzy. She wasn't scared of the huge white mule that could stomp her in the ground, but she was petrified of the goat that wants nothing more than a snack.

 Here my dad is watching Mia feed the mules and horses. Joel's mom sent us the camo trapper hat and orange/camo pullover. I'm not sure why she chose the boy stuff for Mia, but Mia pulls it off and still looks adorable to me.

So I was cooking one day and found it odd that Mia was quiet for a few minutes and not insisting on "helping" me in the kitchen. I went to the living room and found her painting the black dog white! I had a paintbrush in a baggie for future use that she found and decided her dog needed to look more like a skunk. Silly girl. Poor dog.

 Here she couldn't get the dog's attention so she flopped on the floor and laid there staring at the dog for AGES. She'd talk to Sadee, sing to her, poke her in the eyeball, anything to get Sadee's attention, but Sadee is a master at ignoring you when she wants. So Mia lost this battle. Ha!

 This is probably a good example of WHY Sadee chooses to ignore Mia a lot of times. Here Mia had gotten the thermometer thingy and decided that Sadee needed her temperature checked. She kept swiping the thing over Sadee's forehead like you're supposed to do with those things - on humans. Sadee is such a good dog and just sits there and takes it.

These posts are a little random but I'm behind so this is catch up time! Enjoy!